Regarding the Dec. 6 letter “Dems Need Direction,” Tim Walters claims it’s time for Democrats to “put the blame squarely where it belongs,” that Democrats forced him to pull the Trump lever, albeit while “holding his nose,” like many other voters.
Respectfully, sir, if you are a Republican, your vote rests squarely with you. Republican primary voters had choices — 16 or 17, I believe, during their primary, and they knowingly delivered to an already unstable, menacing world President-elect Donald Trump.
As the punch-drunk euphoria wears off, Republicans don’t get to point their fingers and claim that the Democrats made them do it. They’ll need to stand up and take responsibility.
As for Mr. Walters’ advice that we should stop playing “identity politics,” there is way more to the Democratic platform than identity politics. It’s a platform that, if ever allowed to be congressionally acted upon, would do more for Mr. Trump’s bloc of angry, forgotten white working- and middle-class voters than what I believe he will deliver. It is fiction to say we exclusively worked for identity politics, and I see no reason to apologize for working toward equal rights and dignity for all.
As for the claim that the country is “center right”: Look at the 2.6 million more popular votes that Ms. Clinton has received.
TIM WHITNEY
Green Tree
First Published: December 13, 2016, 5:00 a.m.
